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UNrran STATES PATENT @Finca JAMES H. RAND, OF NORTH TONAWANDA, NEWYORK.'

ACCOUNT-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 663,639, dated December1 1, 19oo.

Application led April Z4. 1900. Serial No. 14.102. (No model.)

To all whom t ina/y concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES H. RAND, a citizen of the United States,residing at North Tonawanda, in the county of Erie and State of NewYork, have invented new and useful Improvements in Account-Books, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates more especially to that class of account books inwhich the leaves are detachable or temporarily bound in the book andwhich are commonly known as loose-leaf ledgers.

In the use of an ordinary loose-leaf ledger when two or more small orinactive accounts are entered on the same leaf the leaf is usually notremoved from the book and transferred to the file provided for thatpurpose until all of the accounts on the same are closed; but if such aleaf is removed after one or more but not all of the accounts on thesame have been closed it is necessary to transfer or forward the openaccount or accounts to a new leaf. s

The objects of my invention are to provide an account-book of thischaracter which per, mits the independent removal of any of the accountsof a leaf Without disturbing the remaining accounts of the same leaf andto combine with the book a convenient index for readily referring to anyof the various accounts. v

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of myimproved indexledger, showing the same open. Fig. 2 is a similar viewshowing a modified arrangement of the index.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in both figures.

A A are the covers of the ledger or other account-book, and B is theback. The leaves are temporarily bound in the book by any suitable orwell-known means. struction shown in the drawings the back of the ledgeris composed of hinged sections which are locked in their normal positionby suitable catches and the leaves are detachably bound in the book bycurved prongs or spurs C, which are carried by one of the sections ofthe back and which pass through holes formed in the inner portions ofthe leaves in a manner common to loose-leaf ledgers. Each leaf which isto receive a number of accounts is divided transversely into a pluralityof sections CZ, corresponding to the number of accounts which it isdesired to place on a page, and each of such sections or divisions isadapted to receive the entries of a single account. In the ledger shownin the drawings each leaf is divided into three sections. The sectionsof each leaf are temporarily bound in the book independently of oneanother, so that when the account on one `of the sections of a leaf orset is closed that section can be removed from the ledger and placed ina suitable file without disturbing or requiring the removal of theremaining sections of the same leaf or set, thus enabling eachaccount-section to be individually indexed in the permanent file andavoiding the necessity of transferring or forwarding one or more openaccounts, as required with ordinary undivided loose-leaf ledgers when aleaf is removed before all of the accounts on the same are closed.

The divided leaves of the account-book are separated into indexed groupsby divisionplates E of cardboard or other stiff material. Thesedivision-plates are nearly as wide as the covers A A, while the leavesof the book are somewhat narrower than the divisionplates, sov that thelatter extend beyond the outer ends of the leaves, as shown. Theprojecting outer portion of each division-plate is provided on its faceside with a suitable index F, which corresponds to the sections d of thevarious account-leaves arranged above said division-plate. For example,the portion ofthe index formed by the division-plate seen in Fig. lembraces the letters L, ll/ i, and N, and the names or characters ofeach section of the index correspond to the names of the accountsentered on the group of leafsections opposite said index-section.Tiieindex preferably consists of a series of removable cards on whichthe names of the accounts are written and which are slipped intosuitable holders G, secured horizontally to the division-plate, as shownin Fig. l. For ready reference the leaf-sections of each group arenumbered consecutively, and the index-cards F are numberedcorrespondingly.

If desired, only the letters of the alphabet may be arranged on thedivision-plates opposite the groups of leaf-sections, as shown in IOOFig. 2, instead of the individual-name index, (shown in Fig'. 1,) inwhich case a single letter of the alphabet is placed opposite each groupof leaf-sections. y

My improved account-book not only saves time and labor by avoiding thenecessity of transferring or forwarding open accounts and permitting'the individual indexing of the closed accounts in the permanent file,but it also effects a saving in paper, inasmuch as the account-sectionsof each divided leaf are separate and distinct from the remainingsections aud are removed and replaced by a blank section only when thecorresponding account is closed.

It is obvious that all of the leaves of the account-book neednot bedivided, but some of the leaves may be unbroken and others divided intotwo, three, or morev sections for small or inactive accounts.

eeaess 1 claim as my invention= An account-book having its leavesdivided transversely into a number of separate sections which arearranged one above the other Witnesses:

CARL F. GEYER, CLAUDIA M. BwaN'rLEY.v

